Smell from hell

 Bumble Bee Butt

What is it with all these smell-well products that people are bringing into their homes? Uesd to be when you visited a friend's home, it smelled like your friend's home. It had the aroma of being lived in; of people being their everyday selves. They could bindfold you and take you to a random friend's house and you would know where you were just by the odors of the place. Now days, houses have become generic in smell because of mass marketing telling us we "should" have that "springtime fresh scent" in our abodes. There are scented candles burning, doodads sticking in every electrical outlet relieving themselves of some odious concoction, scented detergents for our clothes and soaps for our hair, hides, and hinnies. There are scented "stickups" stuck everywhere, even in the cabinet with the eating plates to keep the hiding roaches happy. Bathroom sprays, kitchen sprays, laundry room sprays, and even outdoors sprays for patio sitting. We use scented clothes softeners in out dryers, wicks of rose scents in our refrigerators, deodorant for our trash compactors and garbage disposals. Gadgets to go inside and outside our kitchen trash cans, and—god help us if the neighbors smell us—sprays, pads, and stick-ons for our curbside garbage cans. They manufacture and market "freshners" for everything we own. Home has taken on the smell of a $2 whore and our vehicles and workplaces are no better. Even the local pub has succumbed to the whims of Fifth Avenue snake-oil sales people. No wonder our allergies are becoming worse and worse; we are constantly bombarded by stinkies we never evolved to handle.
Has anyone stopped to think about these products and just what kind of chemicals go into them that makes them seem pleasing to so many people? What are we breathing? We go inside to get away from the smell of traffic and small engines around our neighborhoods just to subject ourselves on a constant basis to the poisons that saturate our homes. We try to eat safe foods and we buy purified drinking water yet we are committing slow suicide and possibly causing defects in our future offspring by sucking down copious quantities of of unknown chemicals. Our health in our homes is one of the things from the good old days that we should take back from marketing ingenuity. Scent is important for us; we have noses with two hols for sampling the air, and I would much rather sample the smell of the people I am around than those of corporate profit at the expense of our health.
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Have a stink Thursday!
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